16 Responses to Proving The Point…

When I was in school, we had to present case studies. The case could be no longer than FIVE pages; but we could have as much appendix material as we could carry. Historical note: we were using IBM ribbon printers for the appendices, which were the shiznit back then!

Yeah Rob: there are 12 mentions of lottery winners in that document which makes me wonder if “lottery” is a dog whistle. When the lotto came to California, I remember my parents saying that it was a poor tax in disguise, because who else would play it?

In the early 70s I had a job with a now-defunct department store chain. Got transferred to Camden, NJ, where we sold lottery tickets. They came in boxes of 500, 50 cents a ticket. Scratchers, multi-state lotteries, etc., were miracles for the future.

When I got there we were selling 2-3 boxes a week. When the lottery began a year earlier, they were selling 30 boxes/weekly.